Asian Dub Foundation are not huge mainstream stars, but their politically charged rap and punk rock influenced sound has a multi-racial audience in their native UK.

As of 2010, Gabay is recording and touring with Asian Dub Foundation, The RULES ( a collaborative band with DJ Krust ), and ongoing collaborations with Roni Size and Reprazent.

Throughout the Vanish Point tour Primal Scream employed the up and coming Asian Dub Foundation as a support act, helping them to break onto the mainstream.

Chats Palace has presented and encouraged a wide variety of music, comedy, theatre, photography, carnival, disability arts, dance and transgressive performance, including Clifford Jarvis, Tom Hunter, Miniscule of Sound, Red Saunders, Asian Dub Foundation and Graeae Theatre Company.

* " Paranoid " ( split with " Free Satpal Ram " by Asian Dub Foundation ) ( Damaged Goods 1997 )

Again, commercial success eluded her, despite one of the singles off the album, " I Don't Wanna Lose At Love ", being remixed by the Asian Dub Foundation.

This list encompasses U2, Moby, Cliff Richard, Bruce Cockburn, Martyn Joseph, Steve Taylor, Daniel Amos, Phatfish, Midnight Oil, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Over the Rhine, Iona, Amy Grant, Miles Cain, Lamb, Kevin Max, Lambchop, Goldie, Jamelia, After the Fire, Larry Norman, Randy Stonehill, Asian Dub Foundation, The Polyphonic Spree, Aqualung, Dum Dums, The Proclaimers, Daniel Bedingfield, Eden Burning, Duke Special, Why ?, Athlete, Sixpence None the Richer and Delirious ?.

His most recent collaboration outside Radiohead involved guitar work on an Asian Dub Foundation album ; he played on " 1000 Mirrors " ( with Sinéad O ' Connor ), " Blowback " and " Enemy of the Enemy ".

Other headline acts over the years have included Jools Holland ( 1999-aired on Radio 2 ), Eddi Reader, Paul Young and Asian Dub Foundation.

: For the album by Asian Dub Foundation, see Conscious Party.

Many times they play on stage with guests as Dave Pegg ( Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull ), Jimme O ' Neill ( The Silencers ), Dan Ar Braz, Dr Das ( Asian Dub Foundation ) or Stéfane Mellino ( Les Négresses Vertes )... Their last album " soleil blanc " have been recorded and mixed by the English producer Clive Martin ( Queen, Sting, David Byrne ...) Similarly, EV combined Finnish influences in their Breton folk-rock style, calling it Celto-Finnic rock.

* Asian Dub Foundation, a British band

Russell Simins has produced, remixed and performed with numerous bands including Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Honeymoon Killers, Crowbar Massage, Cibo Matto, Grapevine, Ween, Luscious Jackson, Yoko Ono, Money Mark, Fred Schneider, Duran Duran, Asian Dub Foundation, Stereolab, Tom Waits, The Pierces, Tandy, Spalding Rockwell, The Morning Pages, Little Barrie, Jena Malone, Tiny Masters of Today and Harper Simon.

The British musical group Asian Dub Foundation have a song called " Naxalite ", which is featured on the soundtrack to the 1999 film Brokedown Palace.

* Tank ( album ), by Asian Dub Foundation

Asian Dub Foundation performing live in Berlin, Germany in November 2008

Asian Dub Foundation are a British electronica band that plays a mix of rapcore, dub, dancehall and ragga, also using rock instruments, acknowledging a punk influence.

Asian Dub Foundation is better described as a group that arose from a community rap organisation.

Like other groups in their genre such as Hustlers HC and Fun-Da-Mental, Asian Dub Foundation fuse South Asian instrumentation and lyrics with the dominantly conceived black music genre of rap.

* Time Freeze: The Best of Asian Dub Foundation ( 2007 )

* Asian Dub Foundation Live ( DVD ) ( 2003 )

* Asian Dub Foundation's official website

* Asian Dub Foundation's discography and news

He is currently a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and a member of the Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center Advisory Council, the Council on Foreign Relations, the United States Defense Policy Board, the American Alternative Foundation, and the United States National Security Advisory Group.

Similarly, frets on earlier balalaikas were made of animal gut and tied to the neck so that they could be moved around by the player at will ( as is the case with the modern saz, which allows for the microtonal playing distinctive to Turkish and Central Asian music ).

Renaud Garcia-Fons ( born 1962 ) is a French double-bass player and composer, notable for drawing on jazz, folk, and Asian music for recordings of his pieces like Oriental Bass ( 1997 ).

Many Asian civilizations distinguish between art / court / classical styles and " folk " music, though cultures that do not depend greatly upon notation and have much anonymous art music must distinguish the two in different ways from those suggested by western scholars.

The Asian version, on which all 12 semitones can be played, is used in a large amount of East-Asian music, from rock to pop music.

Pop music really started in the South Asian region with the famous playback singer Ahmed Rushdi's song ‘ Ko-Ko-Korina ’ in 1966.

VCD and DVD are the most common format for Asian singers due to music availability and largely due to the moving picture / video background.

Kumyoung and TJ Media, 2 large firms based in South Korea produces digital music ( MIDI ) contents and manufacture computer music players for the Asian market.

His main influences are Pink Floyd, Traffic, Jimmy Smith, Eastern Mediterranean music, Levantine, and Central Asian cultures and music.

One of Sakamoto's classical influences was Claude Debussy, who he described as his " hero " and stated that “ Asian music heavily influenced Debussy, and Debussy heavily influenced me.

A dayereh ( or doyra, dojra, dajre, doira, daire ) is a medium-sized frame drum with jingles used to accompany both popular and classical music in Iran ( Persia ), the Balkans, and many central Asian countries such as Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

As with Madama Butterfly, Puccini strove for a semblance of Asian authenticity ( at least to Western ears ) by using music from the region in question.

For example, South Asian art music ( Hindustani and Carnatic music ) is frequently cited as placing little emphasis on what is perceived in western practice as conventional ' harmony '; the underlying ' harmonic ' foundation for most South Asian music is the drone, a held open fifth ( or fourth ) that does not alter in pitch throughout the course of a composition.

This interest was first manifested in Weber's incidental music for Schiller's translation of Gozzi's Turandot, for which he used a Chinese melody, making him the first Western composer to use an Asian tune that was not of the pseudo-Turkish kind popularized by Mozart and others.

2003's Channel 4-commissioned two-parter Second Generation set the story in the world of Asian manufacturing and music in England.

The term Early music era may also refer to contemporary but traditional or folk music, including Asian music, Persian music, music of India, Jewish music, Greek music, Roman music, the music of Mesopotamia, the music of Egypt, and Muslim music.

Brooding about future wars, the Field Marshal has this to say: `` The Asian fighting man is at least equally brave ( as the white ), usually more careless of death, less encumbered by mental doubts, less troubled by humanitarian sentiment, and not so moved by slaughter and mutilation around him.

Asian cooking has played a particularly large role in American fusion cuisine.

Brunei's leaders are concerned that steadily increased integration in the world economy will undermine internal social cohesion although it has taken steps to become a more prominent player by serving as chairman for the 2000 APEC ( Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation ) forum.

Burkina Faso has good relations with the European Union, African and Asian countries.

Since the mid 1980s, the United States has had a growing deficit in tradeable goods, especially with Asian nations ( China and Japan ) which now hold large sums of U. S debt that has funded the consumption.

Correspondingly, the U. S. with its lower savings rate has tended to run high trade deficits, especially with Asian nations.

The Royal Cambodian Government ( RGC ) has established diplomatic relations with most countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, as well as all of its Asian neighbors, to include the People's Republic of China, India, Vietnam, Laos, South Korea, North Korea, and Thailand.

Competition from lower-cost Asian and Latin American loggers has hurt the local industry, which is encumbered with high transportation and labor costs.

It is located south of Asia Minor, the Anatolian peninsula of the Asian ( or Eurasian ) mainland ( now part of modern-day Turkey ), so it may be included in Western Asia or the Middle East: At a confluence of Western Asia, Southern Europe, and Northern Africa, Cyprus has had lengthy periods of mainly Greek and intermittent Anatolian, Levantine, Byzantine, and Western European influences.

However, the Russian culture has two distinct terms: Средняя Азия ( Srednjaja Azija or " Middle Asia ", the narrower definition, which includes only those traditionally non-Slavic, Central Asian lands that were incorporated within those borders of historical Russia ) and Центральная Азия ( Central ' naja Azija or " Central Asia ", the wider definition, which includes Central Asian lands that have never been part of historical Russia ).

The theory also has a strong orientalist bent which regards all Asian states as generally the same.

In subsequent years, international Test cricket has generally been organised as bilateral series: a multilateral Test tournament was not organised again until the quadrangular Asian Test Championship in 1999.

A suspension bridge project has been planned, connecting Saricay ( a district of Çanakkale ) on the Asian side to Kilitbahir on the European side.

Also, the African elephant is typically larger than the Asian elephant and has a concave back.

Umami, the Japanese word for delicious, is the least known in Western popular culture, but has a long tradition in Asian cuisine.

Some argue it has brought more flexible attitudes towards casting Black and Asian British actors, with Robbie Gee and Naomie Harris take leading roles in Underworld and 28 Days Later respectively.

The Asian Development Bank has identified tourism as one of FSM's highest potential growth industries.

There are also a large graffiti influences in Southeast Asian countries that mostly come from modern Western culture, such as Malaysia, where graffiti has long been a common sight in Malaysia's capital city, Kuala Lumpur.

A minimalist approach which was equal parts Val Lewton's theory of " less is more " ( usually employing the low-budget techniques utilized on The Blair Witch Project, 1999 ) has been evident, particularly in the emergence of Asian horror movies which have been remade into successful Americanized versions, such as The Ring ( 2002 ), and The Grudge ( 2004 ).

Debate about the Asian origin of the Huns has been ongoing since the 18th century when Joseph de Guignes first suggested that the Huns should be identified as the Xiong-nu of Chinese sources.

Malaysia ’ s rapid economic progress since 1970, which was only temporarily disrupted by the Asian financial crisis of 1997, has not been matched by change in Malaysian politics.

Asian hair typically has a round fiber and is quite straight.

As the fossil record for the Cryptobranchidae shows an Asian origin for the family, the story of how these salamanders made it to the eastern U. S. has been a point of scientific interest.